undernutrition and mortality rise with poverty. Our analysis confirms that media exposure triggers public action, and helps avert …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …

This study examines if household access to microfinance reduces poverty in Pakistan, and if so, to what extent and … across which dimensions of well-being by taking account of the multi-dimensional aspect of poverty. The study draws on first … participating households, that is, the poverty reducing-effects were observed and statistically significant on a number of …

that rural vulnerability in Bangladesh is mainly poverty induced rather than risk induced. Around 78 per cent all who are …. Overall vulnerability in rural areas is estimated to be 50 per cent. The categorization of poverty into transient and chronic … poverty is even more insightful. The study finds that those without education or agricultural households are likely to be the …

. Finally, remittances contribute to poverty reduction – especially through their direct effects. Migration and remittances are …

time and whether the growth pattern affected poverty in low- and middle-income economies in Asia. We first examine whether … evidence that the labor productivity gap reduces rural and urban poverty, as well as national-level inequality …

This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that agricultural households or …

This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that those without education or …